2018.1
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 2018.1
- Installation and Setup
- Basics
- Features
- The Nature of PlanetPress Workflow
- About data
- Data Repository
- Debugging and Error Handling
- About Printing
- About Processes and Subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special Workflow Types
- About Tasks
- Working With Variables
- About Workflow Configurations
- Workflow Configuration resource files
- About related programs and services
- The Interface
- Customizing the Workspace
- PlanetPress Workflow Button
- Configuration Components pane
- Components Area Sections
- Process properties
- Manipulate Global Variables
- Connect resources
- PPS/PSM Documents
- Associate Documents and PlanetPress Printer Queues
- Using the Clipboard and Drag & Drop
- Renaming objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Reordering objects in the Configuration Components pane
- Grouping Configuration Components
- Expanding and collapsing categories and groups in the Configuration Component...
- Delete objects and groups from the Configuration Components pane
- Other Dialogs
- The Debug Information Pane
- The Message Area Pane
- The Object Inspector Pane
- The Plug-in Bar
- Preferences
- Other Preferences and Settings
- General appearance preferences
- Object Inspector appearance preferences
- Configuration Components Pane appearance preferences
- Default Configuration behavior preferences
- Notification Messages behavior preferences
- Sample Data behavior preferences
- Network behavior preferences
- PlanetPress Capture preferences
- OL Connect preferences
- PDF Text Extraction Tolerance Factors
- General and logging preferences
- Messenger plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input 1 plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input 2 plugin preferences
- LPD Input plugin preferences
- Serial Input plugin preferences
- Telnet Input plugin preferences
- PlanetPress Fax plugin preferences
- FTP Output Service preferences
- PlanetPress Image preferences
- LPR Output preferences
- PrintShop Web Connect Service preferences
- Editor Options
- The Process area
- Zoom In or Out within Process Area
- Adding Tasks
- Adding Branches
- Edit a Task
- Replacing Tasks, Conditions or Branches
- Remove Tasks or Branches
- Task Properties dialog
- Cutting, Copying and Pasting Tasks and Branches
- Moving a Task or Branch Using Drag-and-Drop
- Ignoring Tasks and Branches
- Resize Rows and Columns of the Process Area
- Selecting Documents in Tasks Links
- Highlight a Task or Branch
- Undo a Command
- Redo a Command
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PlanetPress Workflow Ribbon
- The Task Comments Pane
- Additional Information
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
Tip
To get a sample of the metadata file, debug your process and step through it until the option Debug
> View Metadata gets enabled. This happens when metadata have been created by a task in the
process. Open the metadata viewer and save the metadata file to use it as a sample file. Click the
Open a meta data file button to open the sample in the metadata selector.
PlanetPress Design documents (unlike Connect Designer templates) are built to contain
metadata. PlanetPress Design users may therefore generate a metadata file for their active
sample data file, using a PlanetPress Design document:click the Create meta data file button.
The Generated PressTalk Expression shows the expression to retrieve the currently selected
attribute or field. Metadata are retrieved with the GetMeta() function (see "Metadata selections"
on page30). This expression is editable, which allows you to customize the string returned by
the metadata selector.
Tip
The wildcard parameter '?' indicates that the function operates on allnodes (not just one) of a given
level; see "Wild card parameter "?" " on page27.
The Enable search on multiple levels option is available when a metadata is selected under
Production information or User defined information. If it is not selected, the option flag includes
NoCascade (+2). For an explanation of option flags in the GetMeta() function, see "Option
flags" on page31.
Metadata level is a tree view allowing users to select the metadata level from which to display
or select metadata elements.
The Production information list displays all metadata fields describing the current
metadatalevel,as selected in the Metadata Level tree view, for the current data page, as
selected in theData page box.
The User defined information lists all metadata fields defined by the user on the current
metadata level.
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